Advice - bad RAM

Chris Mohler cr33dog at gmail.com
Sun Sep 20 01:38:24 UTC 2009


On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 8:34 PM, Rei Shinozuka <shino at panix.com> wrote:
> i had a flaky system (Jaunty amd64) which turned out to be a bad stick
> of memory (4gb).  memtest86 was throwing hundred of errors.   I was
> frankly happy that it was a memory stick rather than some other piece of
> hardware or software misconfiguration.  When I replaced the stick, my
> problems went away.

Yeah - I'm leaning towards new RAM at this point, but I might have to
have it shipped - this is a truly backwater berg :(

In the meantime - anybody ever use the memmap= kernel option?

Chris




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